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Most part of beginning traders neglect psychological factor of market trading. However, over the time, everyone of them comes to an idea that psychology is 90% of trading success. Why does psychology impact so strong on resukts of trading? The main factor us that while looking at market a person percepts signals through the lense of one's knowledge and experience, which also includes fear, greed etc. Let's take two traders each made by one trade, but the first one will have profitable trade and the second one will have loss-making trade. We will analyze behavior of traders. Let's think their experience is pretty moderate and is equal. Upon making a profitable trade, the first trader will be encouraged with a successful start of the day, will think about reserve money to cover a potential loss and will have more ease in actions. On the one hand, it gives free play to looking for situations with better results, on the other, it can dull attention and as a consequence, to cause more harm than good.
A number of reversal patterns is indicated in Forex: Head and Shoulders, Double top, Double bottom, Triple top, Triple bottom, Diamond. Head and Shoulders Top – is a classical reversal pattern of technical analysis, which is formed following to a long upward trend. The model is considered to be fair reliable and is often formed. But despite above-mentioned, many beginning traders do not manage to take profit using this graphic pattern. The reason is that positions are opened prior to forming this model. Let's figure out the structure of the figure and its formation on the chart of trading terminal. The model consists from three subsequent price extreme points, the middle one is higher than others (head), and the rest two are below the middle one and are roughly equal (shoulders). All three uphills are supported by the neck line.
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